“I said to Nigel, ‘If we bring her back, you know it’s like when you see a picture when you’re away and you take it home and you think, why did I buy that?’” said Webber in a rather cringeworthy analogy. “I thought: we’ll get her back, it’ll be fine, but then what do we do with her?”

In any case, the Star is Born moment wasn’t meant to be. Later on, Rihanna would team up with Jay Z and blossom into the multi-hyphenate, record-breaking entertainer we know today. And to think she could have starred in a revival of Cats.